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This 2014 illustration made available by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention depicts a polio virus particle.

Q&A: The polio virus was detected in New York City wastewater. Do you need to worry?

1:45pm August 12, 2022

by Jaclyn Diaz

The highly infectious viral disease can lead to permanent paralysis of the arms and legs and even death in some cases. Health officials are urging people to get vaccinated if they haven't been.

The Trump Organization's longtime chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg (wearing mask), leaves court in New York on Friday.

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Jury selection will start in October for Trump Organization criminal trial

1:29pm August 12, 2022

by Ilya Marritz

The Trump Organization and its former chief financial officer are accused of conspiring to evade federal, state and local taxes over a 16-year period. They deny the charges and any wrongdoing.

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2 Charlottesville, Va., residents remember the 2017 'Unite the Right' rally

7:49am August 12, 2022

Five years ago a car slammed into a crowd of counterprotesters. One person was killed and a dozen injured. Lisa Woolfork was in that crowd. She remembers that day with her friend Kendall King-Sellars.

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An armed man was killed after trying to breach an Ohio FBI office

7:25am August 12, 2022

An armed man clad in body armor who tried to breach the FBI's Cincinnati office on Thursday was shot and killed by police after he fled the scene and engaged in an hourslong standoff.

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The chief prosecutor in the Tampa area says he will fight his removal from office

6:36am August 12, 2022

by Greg Allen

Prosecutor Andrew Warren is fighting his removal from office by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who says Warren refused to enforce laws prohibiting gender-affirming care for minors and other laws.

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A Sunni Muslim is held in connection with the killings of Shia men in New Mexico

6:29am August 12, 2022

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with leaders of New York University's Muslim community about Shia and Sunni responses to the killings of Muslim men in Albuquerque, N.M.

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News brief: Mar-a-Lago warrant, FBI office attacked, New CDC COVID guidance

6:25am August 12, 2022

Justice Department asks a court to unseal the warrant used to search Mar-a-Lago. There was an attempted attack on an FBI office in Cincinnati. The CDC gives new advice on how to live with COVID-19.

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Charlottesville activist Don Gathers reflects on five years since white supremacists terrorized his hometown — "all the hatefulness and evilness that transpired here."

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The Charlottesville rally 5 years later: 'It's what you're still trying to forget'

5:00am August 12, 2022

by Debbie Elliott

The rally by white supremacists protesting the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee left one counter-protester dead and several injured.

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Reagan Gaona stands beside the Unfillable Chair memorial in front of Santa Fe High School in Texas. The memorial is dedicated to the eight students and two teachers killed in a May 2018 shooting. To the left is a sign displaying solidarity with Uvalde, Te

4 years after a school shooting in a small Texas city, 'There is still a lot of pain'

5:00am August 12, 2022

by Renuka Rayasam

In 2018, a 17-year-old gunman killed 10 people at Santa Fe High School. But even with an influx of time and money for mental health services, the community is still struggling with grief and trauma.

This undated photo provided by The J. Paul Getty Museum shows Sculptural Group of a Seated Poet and Sirens.

The Getty Museum in Los Angeles says it will return illegally exported art to Italy

3:46am August 12, 2022

by The Associated Press

The museum says it will return a nearly life-size group of Greek terra-cotta sculptures known as "Orpheus and the Sirens," believed to date from the fourth century B.C.